Bar Associations Cannot Prevent Advocates From Representing Accused Persons : Uttarakhand HC [Read Judgment]

The High Court of Uttarakhand has reiterated that every accused person has a constitutional right to be defended in the court and that the Bar Associations cannot indulge in the practice of restraining its members from representing any accused.The decision in question was taken in the backdrop of an Advocate named Sushil Raghuvanshi, a member of the Kotdwar Bar Association, Uttarakhand...